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Neighbourliness is not a quality in other people, it is simply their claim on ourselves.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

By judging others we blind ourselves to our own evil and to the grace which others are just as entitled to as we are.
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Grace Judgement Ourselves
The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.
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Children Kind Leaving Moral World
Advent creates people, new people.
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Creation One Liner People
Discipleship is not an offer that man makes to Christ.
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Discipline God Man
Where God tears great gaps we should not try to fill them with human words.
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God Human Tears Word
The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.
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Children Deep Moral
Not until one person desires to keep his own bread for himself does hunger ensue.
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Desire Himself Oneself Person
If you believe, take the first step, it leads to Jesus Christ. If you don’t believe, take the first step all the same, for you are bidden to take it.
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Believe Hope Religious Yourself
Strict exercise of self-control is an essential feature of the Christian’s life.
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Control Exercise Life
If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction.
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Direction Run Wrong Yourself
There is a wrong way of staying in the world and a wrong way of fleeing from it. In both cases we are fashioning ourselves according to the world.
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Fashion Ourselves Stay World Wrong
The task of pastoral ministry, above all else, is to arrange contingencies for an encounter with the divine.
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Divine Job
How would you expect to find community while you intentionally withdraw from it at some point? The disobedient cannot believe; only the obedient believe.
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Believe Community Expectation
The Church is the Church only when it exists for others, not dominating, but helping and serving. It must tell men of every calling what it means to live for Christ, to exist for others.
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Existence Help Live Man
Jesus himself did not try to convert the two thieves on the cross; he waited until one of them turned to him.
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Himself Oneself Patience Religious Wait
Not to speak is to speak.
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